Bottle.



Patanted Sept. l6, IQIDZ.

BOTTLE;

(Appfieatipn filed 1m. 1, 1909'.)

(No Model.)

INVSENTOR WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN OCONNOR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y, ASSIGNOR OF ONE HALF T'O JOHN GOODCHILD, GUARDIAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,419, dated September 16, 1902.

Application filed March 1,1902. $erialNo. 96,255. "on model.)

To 0,1,], who/1'1 it may concern:

Be it known that LJOHN OCONNOR, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the class of hottles known as non-refillable and antirea inafter noted, and carefully defined in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is an axial section of the upper part of the bottle. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the valve-seat and valve detached. Fig. 3 is a view of the valve detached and provided with a single jar or leaden ball. Figs. tand 5 are sectional views of the valve, the former showing a liquid used for a jar. and the latter showing a granular material.

A designates the upper part of the body of the bottle, and B the neck of the bottle as a whole. In the mouth of the bottle is fitted and secured a safety-plug 1, having a central bore 2 and radial bores 3 for the outflow of the liquid. The inner portion of this plug beyond the bores 3 is made smaller than the bore in the neck, and this leaves an annular passage 4 for theliquid. The plug 1 is provided with a cork packing-ring 5 and is secured against removal by cement 6.

when it lifts from its seat; but the spaces between the upright guides permit the liquid to pass freely between the guides and to flow into an annular chamber 12, formed in the neck about the valve-seat and extending down below the lateral passages in the seat. The object of this chamber 12 is to allow the liquid when the bottle is turned for pouring to draw away at the lower side into this chamher and permit air to enter the bottle at the upper side, thus preventing the formation of a partial vacu u min the bottle, which produces an unbalanced pressure, tendingto force the valve to its seat, so as to cut off the flow. This is commonly called sucking the valve back to its seat, and itis caused by the chok ing of the neck with liquid, so that air cannot enter to replace the liquid drawn 0d.

The valve 8 is of glass and hollow. These valves must be ground to fit hermetically their coned seats, and being light and buoyant if they stick in the seat, as they are liable to do, it is not easy to dislodge them, and I much inconvenience results. Toobviate this difficulty, I inclose in the hollow or chamber of the valve one or more loose shots or bullets 13, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3. Preferably there will be several small leaden pellets, shot, or bullets, as seen in Fig. 1. As these are loosely caged in the valve, whenthe bottle is tilted or inverted for pouring they will fall away from the coned end of the valve and strike the crown or top of the valve, thus serving as a jar to carry the valve by their momentum from the seat or to jar it loose. In Fig. 3 one heavier jar is used in lieu of several small ones; but a single heavy ball or jar is more liable to break the glass valve than several small ones, and hence I prefer the latter. 1 90 All the parts of the bottle except the cork packing, the cement, and the jar or balls in the valve will be of glass.

I do not limit myself to any special form or material for the loose jar in the valve. Fig. 4 shows a jar 13 of some liquid, preferably a heavy liquid; and Fig. 5 shows a jar 13 of some granular material. These are only a few of the forms or kinds of jars that may be used.

As seen in Fig. 2, which shows the valveseat 10 and the upright guides 10 thereon in perspective, it will be noted that these uprights are triangular in cross section, the sharp V-shaped edges thereof being presented to the side of the valve 8. This form affords the requisite strength to the rather fragile glass uprights and at the same time provides an opening or way for the outflow of the liquid, formed by aggregating all the spaces between the uprights, which is practically equal to the entire circumference of the valve. The space or annular chamber 12 extends down below the coned seat of the valve, and at its upper end it connects with the annular passage at about the concave inner end of the plug 1.

Having thus described my invention, I clai1n- V V The combination with a bottle having a neck integral with the body and provided at its lower end with a ledge 9 and a laterallyexpanded portion above said ledge to form a chamber 12, of the plug 1 cemented in the neck, said plug having a central bore 2, lateral passages 3 therefrom, and a concave inner end which is of reduced diameter so as to form an annular passage 4t within the neck, the glass valve-seat 10, recessed at its lower end and provided with a cork packing 11 which rests on the ledge 9, said valveseat having a coned seating for the valve and triangular upright guides 10, the hollow glass valve 8, on said seat and containing a loose jar, and the glass ball 7 on the Valve and JOHN OOONNOR.

Witnesses:

HENRY CoNNETT, PETER A. Boss. 

